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I wonder if this is less of a link between those things and the dark web, and more of a link between the mental issues and being beyond terminally online and over-informed about all the most horrible shit out there.

I don't keep up on the appliance world very much, but for many years I have been under the impression that when replacing one it's always a good call to NOT get the Samsung.

I have literally never seen reason to doubt that rule.

I'm actually pretty happy with my current appliances, but I don't stick all to one brand and I stick with the simpler cheaper designs. If paying for the next higher tier brings higher build quality or upgrades the core function's power/capacity, then I'll probably go for it.

That kind of suggestive language gives me a large hadron.

It amuses me to play Roblox with my son when he's on a tablet or console and I'm using the Sober app to run the Android client on my Linux desktop that was built to be a windows gaming PC several years ago when he was a little baby.

He has an old PC that he doesn't use much, but he's got a much fancier one on the way.

Is it though? Sure they’ll have a couple great quarters

STOP TALKING! WE ARE FUCKING SOLD!

Ah, yeah it's affected everything across the board. But with the US context and you talking about giant vehicles, $60K vehicles, and 3 rows, I thought we were focused on the larger end of the population as a whole.

I bet the crash safety design of the current honda civic was definitely influenced by the truck regulations and that whole market driving the large end even larger.

Funny enough, I am eagerly awaiting the official announcement of the 2026 MX-5 of all cars.

Alright fine, I can tolerate the little ✨AI ✨ sparkles in my M365 webpages a while longer if it means more kaboom at the end.

I wonder if it's a white balance thing, as in the setting you'd see on a camera or in a post processing tool.

For instance, consider that "soft" or "warm" light bulbs (say 3000K and below) are common in cozy indoor areas. They cast a much more yellow color of light compared with a daylight bulb or actual daylight, which will look very blue in comparison.

It's like the model detected that the image was people in a living room and it applied a warm white balance to the whole picture because most images of a family in the living room have warm lighting globally.

But since it is a machine and apparently has not yet been explicitly taught that comics generally have bright colors and no strange tints, then it does not adjust accordingly.

I wonder if that is even giving it too much credit. Maybe it's just the deterioration from all the iterations of garbage in, garbage out.

Who would have thought that the Orphan Crushing Machine was just a stock Ford F-150 this whole time?

Is it really the safety standards? I thought it was a combination of all the stupid "truck" exceptions and our equally stupid culture where the iamverybadasses choose their 3-ton grocery and kindergarten shuttles out of fear because they want to "win" any collisions.

In the US at least, if you look at the entire TOP 30% of earners, the majority of that group would have five-figure incomes. Not destitute, but the exact kind of middle/working class incomes where people are getting beat down by prices.

You just aren't thinking like a billionaire, man. What you do is get the two people anyway, and still force the 70 hour work week.

Your job is not to find a reasonable steady state of operation. Your job is to exploit the resources before you (even the ones with emotions and families) to extract value for the shareholders in the most efficient way possible, before somebody even more evil and clever than you figures out a better way and we direct future fresh meat to his meat grinder instead of yours.